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Contents:

• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
• GAY THE GDR? THE GAY BERLER VTIGAT AHEAD OF “COMG OUT” SCREENG
• NAZIS, SEX AND STASI PARANOIA: CISG THROUGH GAY LIFE COLD WAR GERMANY
• THE 10 BEST BERL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BERL
• LGBTQ+ BERL – THE CY’S BT GAY BARS, CLUBS AND SNAS
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• GAY LIBERATN BEHD THE IRON CURTA
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• EAST BERL STORI: GAY ESPNAGE COLD WAR BERL

QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL

A number of lbian women, cludg Johanna Elberskirchen and Toni Schwabe, take a pro-active stance and fight to bee actively volved the gay movement, argug favour of havg their say Magn Hirschfeld's Scientific-Humanarian Commtee.

Magaz for gays and lbians are available at public ksks and the venu: they clu Die Frndschaft (Friendship), the Blätter für Menschenrecht (Magaze for Human Rights), Die Frnd (The Girliends), Frenliebe (Women's Love), and Das drte Gchlecht (The Third Sex) for transvt and transsexuals.

GAY THE GDR? THE GAY BERLER VTIGAT AHEAD OF “COMG OUT” SCREENG

There are now around 80 venu for gays and lbians Berl: beer-soaked div and distilleri, bourgeois rtrants, we bars and clubho, dance halls and dance palac, ballrooms and smopolan night-time bars.

NAZIS, SEX AND STASI PARANOIA: CISG THROUGH GAY LIFE COLD WAR GERMANY

Numero hotels and gut ho, bety and hairdrsg salons, tailors and photo studs, doctors and lawyers private practice, librari, cigarette and shoe shops, and even a r rental pany, a travel agency and a distributor for potency pills advertise gay and lbian magaz. The owners of the all-night bar for lbians, Mai & Igel, are also affected by the forced closur, while the rnival stume balls for gays and lbians held at the In n Zelten amement strip Berl's Tiergarten, which were also hugely popular among heterosexuals, are banned wh immediate effect. Homosexuelle Aktn Wtberl is found Berl 1971, om which the femist awakeng emerg 1975 wh the foundg of the Lbian Aktnszentm – along wh the lbian archive Spnbon as an iative for the disvery, and prervatn, of female love.

THE 10 BEST BERL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BERL

In September 2017, a monument to the world's first gay and lbian emancipatn movement, which was iated by the gay and lbian associatn, is unveiled on Magn-Hirschfeld-Ufer, behd the Feral Chancellery. It is a symbol of the diversy of sexualy and genr, and a metaphor for a nfint, flourishg scene – a landspe that was first nceived of, put to the tt, and ma possible the 1920s – when Berl was a role mol for an ternatnal gay and lbian pal which all queer people uld fd a haven and refuge. On 1 October 2017 – a Sunday – the first gay and lbian upl marry Germany, cludg Volker Beck, a polician for the Green party, who marri his spoe Berl-Krzberg after a long fight to be able to say “I do”.

It is said that there were more than 100 venu for homosexuals at that time, rangg om the famo Eldorado to the ladi dance hall Zur Manuela through to the large balls anised by var homosexual associatns.

From 1919, he ran the legendary Instut für Sexualwissenschaft (Instute for Sexual Science), which ma an important ntributn to the emancipatn of gays and lbians all over the world. After the supprsn of the entire gay and lbian muny and subculture by the Nazis, wasn’t until 1971 that the homosexual scene revered aga – which is when the gay movement Homosexuelle Aktn Wtberl (Homosexual Actn Wt Berl) was found.

LGBTQ+ BERL – THE CY’S BT GAY BARS, CLUBS AND SNAS

Sce 1993, the gay/lbian cy ftival has been celebrated every year – is the largt of s kd worldwi and ensur to this day that Berl is home to the most diverse, vibrant and popular gay/lbian scen Europe. The days, up to 750, 000 people celebrate the CSD Berl the streets of the cy – no matter whether you are gay, lbian, bisexual, heterosexual, transgenr or another sexual orientatn.

When the untry crimalised homosexualy 1968 – renrg Germany’s famo anti-homosexualy law, Paragraph 175, els (Wt Germany didn’t repeal 175 until after rnifitn) – the GDR did seem light years ahead.

However, when DEFA (the state-owned film stud) fally gave the green light to the GDR’s first (and only) feature alg wh homosexualy – Heer Carow’s betiful Comg Out – premiered on the eveng of November 9, 1989 at Ko Internatnal – the same night the Berl Wall fell. Twelve years later, when the DVD release exposed ternatnal dienc to the film, Comg Out was my first troductn to gay life Germany as a whole – a ttament to not jt as a great gay film, but great film general.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

The difficult road the gay muny had to walk “the workers’ and farmers’ state, ” as East Germany scribed self, until was able to raise public discsn of the muny and have s rights regnized is scribed by the Amerin historian Samuel Clow Huneke his new book “Stat of Liberatn: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy Cold War Germany. 'The book, published by the Universy of Toronto Prs, offers a prehensive and illumatg look at the gay sexual and polil history of a divid Germany durg the era of the Iron Curta, on both sis of the Berl Wall.

The thor shows how the Nazi past ntued to st s shadow over the stat of gay men and women both Wt and East Germany the s after World War II, and par the separate stggl by the gay muni each untry. Then Everythg Changed The Gay, Jewish Scientist Spared by the Nazis How We've Supprsed the Queer History of the Holot This is the first book by Huneke, 33, a profsor of morn European history at Gee Mason Universy Virgia.

GAY LIBERATN BEHD THE IRON CURTA

The Nazis worried that gay men were naturally nspiratorial and th posed a threat to the stabily of the ernment“When I started to rearch, I very quickly realized that this history was still fed by a Cold War mdset that se ‘the Wt’ as sentially good and ‘the East’ as sentially evil.

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” The gay spy Dcribg the differenc between the two untri on LGBTQ issu, Huneke first not the persecutn and opprsn that were the lot of many gay people durg the dozen years of the Third Reich. At the same time, the Socialist Uny Party that led East Germany remaed hostile to homosexualy wh s own ranks, g as an exce to purge troublome party members and often stokg anim agast LGBTQ people anti-Wtern propaganda.

” The ver of Samuel Clow Huneke's new Universy of Toronto PrsIn one of the most pellg chapters of his book, Huneke exam the rol played by members of the LGBTQ muny, pecially gay men, spy wars between the two blocs –as agents and rmants, and as subjects for surveillance.

'Intelligence agenci were so nvced of gay men’s nspiratorial natur that they actively reced gay agents to gather telligence for them'“What I disvered the archiv, however, was that telligence agenci Cold War Germany were so nvced of gay men’s nspiratorial natur and the class-crossg potential of the gay subculture, that they actively reced gay agents to gather telligence for them. In the Wt German state of Hse, for stance, there was a public sndal 1953 when me to light that the domtic telligence service had tasked a gay officer wh buildg a work of gay rmants.

EAST BERL STORI: GAY ESPNAGE COLD WAR BERL

” A fateful meetg In a way, the moment when gay activism was born East Germany was the locker room of a swimmg pool East Berl, where 1971, two young gay men met by chance – 18-year-old Michael Eggert and 21-year-old Peter Rsch.

Soviet soldiers watch a man at a meetg of gay liberatn groups at East Berl's Alexanrplatz, Germany, the summer of AP Photo/Jockel FckThis group, Huneke says, was “spired by gay liberatn activism Wt Germany, and they cid to try to nvce the munist ernment that need to addrs the prejudice and discrimatn that many gay men and lbians still faced. This group, which eventually took the name Homosexual Intert-group Berl or HIB, started anizg barets, poetry readgs, and other private social events, while also petng the ernment for regnn.

” Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf, who hosted gay activists her private mm, where they met, hosted large parti, barets, and Eckertz-Popp / ullste bild / GHow did the great change eventually take place the stat of the LGBTQ muny the 1980s, which was the last of the existence of East Germany?